The Gujarat government has announced a 30% to 55% hike in the monthly salaries of contractual medical faculty in the hospitals affiliated with the state’s medical colleges.
These faculty members are recruited on contractual basis for 11 months.
Commenting over this salary hike, Gujarat’s Minister of Health and Family Welfare Rushikesh Patel said, “It is expected to attract and retain more qualified doctors and teachers in these institutions, helping to improve healthcare services across the state.”
Further explaining this decision, Patel said, “Private medical practitioners who serve their duties as medical faculties in these hospitals affiliated to the medical colleges will also benefit from this hike.”
As per this decision, a class-1 professor will now be paid ₹2.5 lakh per month instead of the previous stipend of ₹1.84 lakh.
Similarly, a class-1 associate professor will now be paid ₹2,20,000 instead of ₹1,67,500, a class-1 assistant professor will be paid ₹1,38,000 instead of ₹89,400, and a class-2 tutor will be paid ₹1,05,000 instead of ₹69,300.
Earlier this month, the state government announced the opening of new medical colleges in seven additional districts by modifying the policy for Brown Field Medical Colleges.
With an amendment in the Brown Field Policy, medical colleges are to be set up in seven districts, including Botad, Devbhumi Dwarka, Gir-Somnath, Kheda (Nadiad), Chhotaudepur, Mahisagar (Lunawada), and Dang (Ahwa).